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Small Garden with Men Working in Background

Date: 1941
Description: A small backyard garden is in the foreground near what appears to be a house. Men are working next to two trucks and a crane in the background.
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Fourth of July in Madison

Date: 07 04 1954
Description: Arthur Finnigan eats Cracker Jacks while other children have soda pop and ice cream. The children are at Westmorland Park.
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We Saw You . . . at Carrier Boys' Picnic

Date: 06 30 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc, hosts a picnic for newspaper carriers as a special recognition to the boys, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in...
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We Saw You . . . at Carrier Boys' Picnic

Date: 06 29 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic for special recognition to newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any weather. ...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Edith Getz and Lillian Fried demonstrate how to cook pancakes on an improvised griddle made of bricks and metal sheets during an emergency mass feeding dem...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three sisters gather at one of their homes to carry on a 30 year Christmas time tradition of making a year's supply of lefsa. Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marqu...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description:  Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Vivian Schleck (left), member of the Mendota Garden Club, lights a candle, and Mrs. Alvin Sonnenberg, member of the Little Garden Clubs, serves cookies du...
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United Church Women Breakfast

Date: 07 20 1955
Description: United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. At left, Irma Jenkins ass...
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Eight Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys around a picnic table enjoying root beer and apples in the shade of a grove. They are (left to right): Ri...

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